Why are so many intelligent people afraid of the possibililty that "ghosts" or "spirits" exist? ;)

Answer 1

I think it is more a fear of what people will think. I know ghosts exist and am not afraid to admit it, but I get funny looks and even made fun of in some circles, but I ignore the fun making and just consider the source as you should with that rude guy.

You asked an honest question and deserve honest answers.

I think most people do no want to be called crazy, heck I have been called that so many times I am used to it.LOL

Answer 2

The most obvious answer is that such people do not want to be considered by their, no doubt also intelligent, peers to be crazy or even superstitious by believing in such things as spirits. Anything that cannot be seen, heard, measured, or observed is to them simply a falsehood, just something that doesn't exist because they can't prove that it does. Without any proof to back up their assertions, I can see how any thinking individual might think twice before admitting that they believe in such things.

Also there is the subcontious hope in most everyone that if they don't believe in something it simply will not exist for them. The prospect of trying to live in a world were supernatural beings exist and can interact with humans, without any means of controlling them or preventing them from hurting humans (at least that we're aware of) is an extreamly frightening thought, for anyone, and esspecially for those intelligent folk who dare spare the brain power to imagine such a world and what it'd be like.

Of course that doesn't really excuse it, as I feel I'm a fairly intelligent individual and I whole heartedly believe their is a spiritual aspect to our world that we know little about, but I imagine the above reasons are the most common reasons why people don't, or won't admit to believing in spirits.

God Bless,
Chake-Ri Shcos

Answer 3

Yes, afraid is the wrong word. Everyone has different degrees of emotion. Some have little or no emotion. They view the world thru logic. They live in the material world. It is neccesary to have people like this because it makes better scientist, doctors, politicans, ect. Ghosts/spirits are nonexistant to them. Yet, there are others who have higher levels of emotions who are able to see beyond the material. Then, there people with too much emotion and they create fanasty worlds. Their lies have made the logical ones totally dismiss any real claims that may be out there. Hope this makes sense.

Answer 4

I don't know anyone who is AFRAID of the idea of ghosts and spirits. I think that's like asking why so many people are afraid of the possibility of elves. They're not. They simply don't believe that they exist, based on their reasoning skills. Also, people may also think that they may exist, but not in the way that so many people are duped into thinking they do, by fake "psychics" like Sylvia Brown, Jon Edwards, etc. These guys are simply skilled con artists, and it's quite disheartening for people who know that, to see an entire population duped so easily.

Answer 5

Your question makes no sense to me. I don't know anyone that is afraid of ghosts or spirits. Even the few people I know that believe in them aren't really "afraid" of them. And of course, the many people I know who think that ghosts and spirits are just quaint fantasies are not afraid of them at all.

Answer 6

People only believe what they can see, feel, hear, taste, or touch. Anything outside of their realm of experience is negligible.
Intelligent people demand proof in the existence of the unseen, unheard, untouched, untasted, (which is weird because they willingly accept tabloids as factual sources of information about famous people, rather than talking to the famous people themselves and learning the truth from the source!) They prefer to believe lies rather than find out or believe in the truth, because they can't accept that there is something that exists beyond their comprehension.
Intelligent people accept scientific evidence as proof of the existence of microscopic creatures without ever looking into a microscope themselves, because the scientists have done studies and are educated. Because science has never truly proven the existence of ghosts or spirits, because the intelligent people can't see ghosts with their own eyes, they refuse to believe they exist.
But that is a rather narrow-minded viewpoint, isn't it? It's like saying there is no other half the planet we are on, the world is flat and not round, because if I can't see it, and never have seen it, it doesn't exist. If I expressed that belief, I would be laughed out of town. We know there is another half to the planet because satellite imagery shows pictures of our planet. We know there are people on the other side of the planet even though we don't see them, because other people have been and brought back the pictures to prove it.
But because there are no pictures of ghosts, intelligent people believe they don't exist, even though many people have claimed to see them. Are you automatically going to discredit me if I claim to have seen a ghost or two? Am I suddenly untrustworthy because I claim to have seen really ugly people in my bedroom in the middle of the night 'just passing through' on their way from the cemetery down the street?
Now let me explain something about 'making it up' and 'figments of my imagination'.
A real 'figment of my imagination' would have been a flash or movement out of the corner of my eye. A 'figment of my imagination' would never have a face, let alone two faces, let alone having distinct AfricanAmerican facial features, let alone be distinctly a man and a woman in their late forties, early fifties, with distinctly bad teeth and brown eyes. And yet I saw them in my bedroom one night when I lived down the street from that cemetery.
A 'figment of my imagination' would have been a shimmer of light, not a distinct little boy about the age of three, with blonde hair and blue eyes and wearing white clothes.
And a 'figment of my imagination' would never have been an old, ugly lady in a shimmering green and purple dress.
Let me tell you, I can imagine so much better than that, y'all. If I had my preferences, my figments would have been hot- looking surfer dudes or something along the lines of, oh, I don't know, Kenny Chesney or one of the members of Duran Duran back in the day.
Just because you did not see what I see, you reject my visions. Just because of that.
You know, reject me all you want. I will go on seeing the unseen. I will go on believing the unseen, so that I am better prepared for my transition to the next phase of existence without fear. Call me weird, I don't care. I've heard it all before. And it's all because they refuse to accept anything outside of themselves.
I go on knowing...

Answer 7

In Islaam we don't deny they exist but we don't consider them ghosts or spirits. People think that ghosts or spirits are souls of the dead, or dead people on another plain of existence etc. In Islaam we know them as Jinn. If you want to understand their world try these books out.

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Answer 8

I think they simply just don't believe in them! But I think that they shouldn't degrade or think that there is something wrong with people who do! People should be able to believe in what ever they want to believe in without being labelled or demoralised. I believe in the spiritual world, and I also believe that everyone has their own god.

Answer 9

Interesting use of the word "afraid". It says to me that you are fishing for someone to answer exactly as you believe rather than real fact finding. How's that working for ya?

Answer 10

I am not afraid of the possibility, I don't believe in them. There is a difference.